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Meta-analysis - Pitfalls ... A meta-analysis of several small studies does not predict the results of a single large study, especially in a field like medicine where results are truly unpredictable ... A good meta-analysis of badly designed studies will still result in bad statistics, according to Robert Slavin ... Slavin has argued that only methodologically sound studies should be included in a meta-analysis, a practice he calls 'best evidence synthesis' ...

Saffron - Trade and Use - Use ... history as part of traditional healing several modern research studies have hinted that the spice has possible anticarcinogenic (cancer-suppressing), anti-mutagenic (mutation-preventing), immunomodulating ... Early studies show that saffron may protect the eyes from the direct effects of bright light and retinal stress apart from slowing down macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa ... stigmas, but this is often not made explicit in research papers.) Other controlled research studies have indicated that saffron may have many potential ...

Famous quotes containing the word studies:

“Recent studies that have investigated maternal satisfaction have found this to be a better prediction of mother-child interaction than work status alone. More important for the overall quality of interaction with their children than simply whether the mother works or not, these studies suggest, is how satisfied the mother is with her role as worker or homemaker. Satisfied women are consistently more warm, involved, playful, stimulating and effective with their children than unsatisfied women.”—Alison Clarke-Stewart (20th century)

“The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.”—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)

“...Womens Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.”—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)